Maybe stop it now?

When I moved from Las Vegas, USA, to Tokyo, Japan, for school, I’d often go down to a local bar to study. One night I was in there, the bartender asked me how hot it got in Vegas. It took me a minute to reply, not so much because I didn’t know the Japanese for what I wanted to say, but because I’ve never been good at converting America’s stupid Fahrenheit system to Celsius.

After a moment, I told him. “Go-ju do gurai.”

Him and another employee busted up laughing. A friend who was WAY more fluent than I translated, “He’s laughing because you messed up your Japanese numbers. You said it was fifty degrees in Las Vegas!”

I had to show him the weather site on my phone that gave the highs for that August, then the conversion for Fahrenheit to Celsius. The looks on their faces were PRICELESS!!! That bartender looked at me like I was some sort of monster or alien the rest of that night.

@TuxedoCartman Reminds me of when I told a colleague in Madrid about how I went to school in minus thirty.

@Rogers
I was an exchange student in Japan, telling some teachers who asked about how cold it got in Canada. I told them about a family Christmas in Ottawa (our capitol) where it was -45c, and the adults kicked all us kids out of the house to go "play outside" on a nearby sledding hill. After 20 minutes, it got very hard to breathe... because our nose-hairs had frozen together, so we turned back.

The Japanese teachers laughed at hearing -45c, and though I didn't quite understand the words they used taking to each other about it, from the posing it was obvious they were kidding about taking a piss and having it freeze before it hit the ground.

Yeeeeeah... I wasn't going to take my dick out in that weather; I might not get it back!

You COULD spit and hear it make a cracking noise hitting the ground though.

@Hinoron Really? Minus 40 or lower is too dangerous to risk. Those are the kind of temperatures when you should keep inside as much as possible.

*sun comes out*
Temperate Countries: WhY aRe We HeRe, If OnLy To SuFfEr

Oh, not again, my poor Europeans! I send yet again all my support from Lebanon!

@Rayati We Nordics must seem like total weaklings to those of us that live in hotter climates.

@Rogers Nah, there's a heatwave going on in the North, and even we Mediterraneans are capable of complaining about the heat.

@Rayati Thank ya fam, it ain't good

@Vladimir *sigh* I can imagine

OMG! Is nordic country hot too? I'm in South korea, it's really really hot... And it rains a lot!! I'm almost dying.... Everyone take care of your health please!

@Mirinae I wouldn't mind a bit of rain right now.

@Rogers Yea but then it makes the air tropical-like an it'll be even worse DX

@Rogers Well yeah because in Europe, the rain usually stops the heat-wave so we welcome it... But I suppose it's a little different in korea where the summers are probably moonsoon-like and the rain just adds humidity in the air making the heat even more unbearable...

@Rogers Doesn't rain in Sweden? Here(South Korea) rains really heavy, so there was a flood in some areas..
I wonder that the weather in Sweden! And I want to visit Sweden sometime.

@Mirinae It rains fairly often here but rarely cause floods or humidity. A lack of rain in the summer can cause drought which can cause forest fires, which can be very bad considering how much of Sweden is covered in forest. You are very welcome to visit us.

@Rogers Thank you! You're really kind!!! It looks very interesting.. Love Sweden from South Korea!

@Mirinae
I loved South Korea both times I visited. The shrill of the Cicadas was quite loud though. Someday I want to visit again. In the spring this time.

@KimberlyK Cool! Thank you But you must be careful when you visit South Korea in spring, because of the fine dust.. So don't forget take your own masks!(You can buy them in Korean drug stores!)

@Mirinae here in northern Norway we got up to about 30 C this week, that almost never happens.

@Asgth That's crazy!!!!!! My geography teacher taught that 'Scandinavian countries are pretty cool in Summer'! But it is not true in this time... That weather is really crazy!! Actually, South Korea is about 34°C...

Wait, I drink with plastic straws … *realization*

Sorry guys, I guess I single handedly caused climate change. My bad.

Ironically Nigeria is experiencing much lower temperatures than the northern hemisphere is, and we have the Sahara desert right next door

@Ikechi1 What! Clearly, our travel agents should start making trips to the Sahara, if that is the case. Give us back our weather!

This is going to be a hot Pride parade this year… Oh dear...

@EUcomicartist @DanishPride It's a pride parade. It was already FLAMING

@SchrodySweden Yes, I know! It really was, I *shrimp*ly could not believe it...

@DanishPride (I really don't get what that has to do with pride or heat but)
let's hope none of them are in HEAT at the time

Not necessarily a good idea to run your computers in extreme heat either. Do what you must, Humon.

Honestly, try working in that weather!


In the last few weeks of July we had a massive heat wave (the hottest it got was 40* Celsius!). I work at an Ampitheater, you do the math! I can’t count how many times this summer I had to get out of work due to heat related injuries!

@Bluesamurai Its awful. I had to clean off the deck a few days ago in 93 degree heat. Not too bad, right? WRONG! There was a storm coming so the humidity was through the roof, like over 90%. Apparently the heat index reached 136 that day! I thought I was dying out there.

Meanwhile, right here, we are suffering a long cold winter. I prefer the winter

@Schattensturm Could you send some of that up north please? I miss winter... kind of wish we could artificially start an ice age. You can always add layers in winter, but in summer you can only strip so far before someone yells at you or you reach skin.

@Steeeve Yeah i know how that feels. In summer i prefer to stick to the shadows and bide my time until the days of darkness and cold are back upon us. Which, by the way, is a very goth way to say that i prefer to be cool and covered from the sun until winter

@Steeeve Get a house in Patagonia. Problem solved.

@Schattensturm
I certainly prefer winter to summer heat waves and power outages, but tastes vary.

@Drachenfrau